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1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 789 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 193,543 ratings — published 2005
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 636 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 322,322 ratings — published 2001
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 537 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 159,701 ratings — published 2005
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 535 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 138,810 ratings — published 2004
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 524 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 542,530 ratings — published 2003
A People's History of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 484 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 200,126 ratings — published 1980
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 41,907 ratings — published 2000
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 377 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 70,107 ratings — published 1970
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 59,925 ratings — published 2011
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 54,000 ratings — published 1996
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 57,403 ratings — published 2010
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 38,906 ratings — published 2006
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 66,581 ratings — published 2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 791,098 ratings — published 2010
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 299 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 47,395 ratings — published 2005
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 69,732 ratings — published 2005
Battle Cry of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 26,697 ratings — published 1988
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,315 ratings — published 2008
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (ebook)
by (shelved 263 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 136,072 ratings — published 2017
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 79,323 ratings — published 1992
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 117,607 ratings — published 2003
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 98,606 ratings — published 1845
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 242 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,276 ratings — published 2012
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 58,317 ratings — published 1995
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 24,130 ratings — published 2017
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,339 ratings — published 2015
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 215 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 35,336 ratings — published 2010
His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,066 ratings — published 2004
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 214 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 35,827 ratings — published 1787
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,634 ratings — published 2007
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 19,685 ratings — published 2013
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 45,717 ratings — published 2013
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 89,105 ratings — published 2000
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,793 ratings — published 1997
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 70,911 ratings — published 1791
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 46,019 ratings — published 1979
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,678 ratings — published 1835
Theodore Rex (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 45,031 ratings — published 2001
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 19,059 ratings — published 2016
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (The Killing of Historical Figures)
by (shelved 168 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 94,761 ratings — published 2011
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 231,667 ratings — published 2013
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,363 ratings — published 1994
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 28,368 ratings — published 1981
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 14,851 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 605,771 ratings — published 2010
Common Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as american-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,598 ratings — published 1776
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,770 ratings — published 2009
All the President's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,344 ratings — published 1974
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 28,580 ratings — published 2006
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as american-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 82,543 ratings — published 2010
“Something terrible happened in Salem in 1692 . . . but it isn't what you think!”
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“Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.”
― Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
― Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
The Amazing Life and Times of George Washington
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Notes on Masterwork Studies Series: Little House on the Prairie (A reader's companion)
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